I would never had thought I would have liked a Dimebucker and never would have tried one. What happened is I traded a Robot SG Special for a Les Paul Standard Faded. The kid who had the LP was a metal player, so he put the Dimebucker in it. I also got the original LP pickup....and immediately re-installed that....so I had a Dimebucker laying around. I originally put it in a Lotus Strat project, but then when my SG1 pickup died (still not sure how that happened)...I said "what the heck" and gave it a try. I was very surprised but I liked it a lot! I was especially surprised that I liked it in single coil mode too.